On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, Adam Hoka wrote: > Wouldn't it be a good idea to include a check for curses headers during > bootstrap? I know its RTFM, but it may be non-trivial to track down why > the bootstrap stoped. > > Something like this: > > echo_msg "Looking for curses header files" > if [ ! -f /usr/include/curses.h ] || [ ! -f /usr/include/ncurses.h ]; then > die "You need curses header files to bootsrap pkgsrc (see > README.$opsys)" > fi Most Linux distros seem to have a default lack of a development headers, so this sounds like a very good idea. -- David Griffith dgriffi%cs.csubak.edu@localhost